A Spectre Of Utopia: A Marvel Of Modern Engineering

No, that is not some alien space craft. Unfortunately, we have not made contact with a benevolently advanced alien race, well, not any that our governments will admit anyway. Of course when I stumbled upon this, I clearly heard the line, “No. Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!” Sadly that quote is from Goldfinger and not The Spy Who Loved Me, which surely is the inspiration for this private floating island from Project Utopia by BMT Yachts. Having spent 11 years of my early adult ...

Simplest Way To Know If You Should Check Your Email [Flowchart]

Have you ever found yourself in the predicament where you just didn’t know if it was worth it checking your email? With all the spam that continuously litters our inboxes, it’s sometimes just too much to handle. Sure, there a million spam filters that you could use, but then you suddenly find yourself looking in your spam filter for legit emails sent to you. We are left wondering if there is any way we can win this battle. On top of all that, we can’t be ...

Cupcakes Made With Insects: Someday You’ll Love These

We’ve written many times about how in the future we’ll have to eat different foods than we eat now. The world’s population is simply growing too fast to sustain our current lifestyle when it comes to food. There are many theories about what exactly those future foods will be, and scientists around the world are working on their interpretations of the best ideas right now. Some people say we will find new ways to create our own nutritious foods, meaning we will eat things that currently ...

Shit People Say: Slang From The 1990s Until Today [Infographic]

I think I have touched this subject briefly before in some of my articles, but I haven’t really penetrated the subject to the core. It seems that the community of geeks and fans of various franchises have a need to come up with words that become the slang for a whole generation. It’s been going on for decades now, and as we all know, it’s not going to stop anytime soon. They are words that usually mean something else, but they are put into another context ...

Creativity As Explained By John Cleese

If you have ever listened to someone try to explain what creativity is really all about and where it comes from, you will notice that pretty much every single person will tell you a different story and you might wonder why that is. It’s not as weird as you might think actually. As a matter of fact, creativity is probably the one word that is among the hardest to explain, not to mention hard to grasp. It’s because creativity is such a vast and individual word ...

THE Missing Voice On Your Business Board of Directors

Creating diversity in the board room has reached critical mass according to Bloomberg findings supported by Catalyst Census. According to Catalyst, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for women in the workplace, only 11% of corporate directors of Fortune 500 companies are women. Over 25% of those companies do not have a single woman on their boards, and that is unacceptable in 2012. If women control $20 trillion of annual consumer spending decisions, what is the hold up? Yes, Europe is taking a stronger stance in making ...

Bubble Hotel Lets You Sleep Under The Sky In A Plastic Ball

To continue on our “imaginary world” theme today, I decided to take a look at some rather inspiring ways to spend your vacation or weekends. We usually just book a hotel somewhere and then look at what activities are available around it. It’s the kind of approach most of us take, but shouldn’t the hotel or the place we stay be as important as the activities around it? I mean, it is after all the place where you will spend a great deal of time, so ...

9 Epic & Playful Worlds Of Children’s Imagination

It is and always will be one of the most intriguing abilities humans will ever harness. It’s the ability to dream and imagine things that never existed. It is what has gotten us to where we are today, and it is what will take us beyond our wildest dreams and even beyond that. It’s been said that as you grow older, you lose some of that imagination. It is instead replaced with knowledge and reason. Personally, I think that is a real shame since so many ...

The Bird’s Nest Restaurant: Dine Peacefully While Sitting In A Tree

One of my favorite types of creativity is the kind that expresses itself in a way where lots of people from around the world can benefit from its inspiration. Whether that’s a blog that a lot of people read, a resort that a lot of people visit or a food design that a lot of people eat, it’s always a win-win and I love it. I remember a few months ago when I wrote about the restaurant built at the base of a waterfall because it ...

Joe Soap… Yes You! Make Money From Your YouTube Content

Before now, making money from YouTube was reserved for a select few. You had to be approved by Google, and your content had to be popular. Well, Google has now announced that anyone on YouTube with a single piece of content can now monetize their uploaded videos. As of 12 April 2012, YouTube updated their partner eligibility across 20 countries. The countries eligible are as follows: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, Spain, ...

Bug Memorials: Paying Respect To Dead Bugs On The Street

Unless it’s a mosquito or roach that’s flying towards me (roaches fly here in the south), I don’t kill bugs. I don’t kill anything. I’m just not a fan of that. And yes, I eat meat, and lots of it, so maybe I’m a hypocrite, I don’t know. All social graces aside, I don’t like to see anything get killed, even disgustingly dirty bugs. When I saw this installation about little bug memorials, it touched my heart, in a humorous way. This project, by Carmichael Collective, ...

What Your Lingerie Reveals About Your Personality [Infographic]

Off the top of my head, I can think of three things that make a lot of women feel good no matter how stressful the day may be. Those things are a huge scoop of chocolate ice cream in a waffle cone, a pair of rockin Jimmy Choo or Christian Louboutin heels, and some sexy lingerie. What a lot of guys don’t realize is that going to Victoria’s Secret can actually be a therapeutic experience. Spending an hour in that store can make us feel re-energized, ...